91.   Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak arrived in Egypt Thursday for talks with President Hosni Mubarak aimed at reinvigorating Middle East peacemaking following inconclusive talks with the Palestinians.

92.   It followed talks by Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week.

93.   It followed talks between a delegation from the Chinese Economy and International Trade Ministry and Lebanese State Minister for Finance Fouad Saniora.

94.   Iraqi opposition leaders, trying to consolidate support for their campaign to oust Saddam Hussein, met with a U.S. envoy on Tuesday following talks with British officials.

95.   It said Shamil Basayev was following the talks from an undisclosed hideout in the mountains and had met with Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev late Tuesday.

96.   It will follow a talk about East Timor by two recent visitors to the area.

97.   Kyprianou announced plans to fly to Belgrade on Wednesday following talks in Nicosia, the Cypriot capital, with the ambassadors from Yugoslavia and Russia.

98.   Kazakhstan and India will cooperate in nuclear energy research and reactor designs, following talks Monday by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in the Indian capital.

99.   Meanwhile, an Egyptian delegation arrived back in Cairo on Saturday following talks with U.S. investigators on the reasons of the crash.

100.   Neither leader made comments to reporters following the talks.